Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Karin Knorr Cetina

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Leaves: 349
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

How does science create knowledge? Epistemic cultures, shaped by affinity, necessity, and historical coincidence, determine how we know what we know. In this book, Karin Knorr Cetina compares two of the most important and intriguing epistemic cultures of our day, those in high energy physics and molecular biology.

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